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Every artist needs their paint brushes right? Now, imagine if there was only 1 store in the world that sold paintbrushes, and they cost $999 each.

Thats how it is now for Digital Artists and Graphic Designers. For those artists, their tool of choice is Adobe Photoshop; the standard application for photo manipulation and design. It costs $999 for the latest version

That is outrageous! The price alone is enough to stop future Piccassos from delving into graphic design.

Fortunately, other people feel the same way; and some have banded together to create an alternative graphics program. GIMP is the result of this effort. GIMP is now an extremely robust competitor to Adobe Photoshop; and it’s completely free.

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. GIMP has a long history. It was started way back in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis. This long development time has produced a mature graphics suite that can handle almost everything Adobe Photoshop does.